I think it is improved but can we all now relax on the BE being this elite (on the level of the ACC) conference for awhile.
If it weren't for SJU and Villanova with big rallies at home (and quite frankly Nova got outplayed and deserved to lose) this would have been a complete disaster of a weekend for the BE.
Let's be clear the ACC has 3 teams: Duke, Louisville and Virginia (really being underappreciated in my mind that is a Final Four caliber team) that are all better than Villanova. Period. Deeper and more talented. And Villanova is the deepest and best BE team by a country mile!!!
They have another who has as much talent as Nova if not more that has clearly underachieved so far but you can see they will be big time by the end of year, North Carolina.
They have another ND who has one loss (granted that was to a BE team in Providence by a point in Connecticut) and Syracuse is not vintage but they showed they have enough young talent that they will win some games against good teams later in the year. That was a gift they gave Villanova.
Again the League is improving Georgetown and Xavier even with some early losses will be legit in the League. But you saw all those tweets from a few weeks ago with the BE W/L record 38-3 nonsense, that stopped pretty quick no??? LOL!!